NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Lasant pdf

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : Lasant

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Blackbody-pumped solar lasers are proposed to convert sunlight into laser power to provide future space power and propulsion needs. There are two classes of blackbody-pumped lasers. The direct cavity-pumped system in which the lasant molecule is vibrationally excited by the absorption of blackbody radiation and laser, all within the blackbody cavity. The other system is the transfer blackbody-pumped laser in which an absorbing molecule is first excited within the blackbody cavity, then transferred into a laser cavity when an appropriate lasant molecule is mixed. Collisional transfer of vibrational excitation from the absorbing to the lasing molecule results in laser emission. A workshop was held at NASA Langley Research Center to investigate new lasant materials for both of these blackbody systems. Emphasis was placed on the physics of molecular systems which would be appropriate for blackbody-pumped lasers

• Creator/s: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS
• Date: 9/1/1985
• Year: 1985
• Book Topics/Themes: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), BLACK BODY RADIATION, ENERGY CONVERSION, LASER CAVITIES, LASER PROPULSION, LASER PUMPING, SOLAR-PUMPED LASERS, ELECTROMAGNETIC ABSORPTION, ENERGY TRANSFER, GAS LASERS, LASER OUTPUTS, MOLECULAR COLLISIONS, MOLECULAR EXCITATION, VIBRATIONAL SPECTRA, Deyoung, R. J. [Editor], Chen, K. Y. [Editor

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